It's been a while since I've had a chance to post. This passed weekend was so much fun. It was great to see Kari, Eric and Noah and to hang out with Kurt, Heather, Mom, Dad and Jim. I so happy to be by family again. I can't wait for Christmas. Then the kids and Charlie had a snow day on Monday to top it all off. It was fun to extend their Thanksgiving break for one more day.

We bought Charlie a new car. It's a 2006 black, two door-hatch-back Focus. He loves it and we are so pleased that he doesn't have to drive around a mini-van anymore. It saves lots of gas that way. We sold our Windstar to Mom and Dad, who sold their car to Sabrina, who gave us her car as a trade-in for our Focus. It was a weird transaction, but it worked out best for everyone. We all ended up with better cars than we had before.

Alexis and Makayla had a Christmas program at school last night. I've added some pictures of them. Makayla was so excited because she was able to finally show us her dances she's been working on. She did great and looked so cute. Alexis sang in the choir and then had a special quartet that she performed in. She did great, although she didn't smile a whole lot while she was singing. I think she was just nervous.

Next Tuesday Merrit, Makayla and Chelsea will be performing for their grade levels. Merrit and Makayla both have speaking parts in a little skit for that night. Makayla is Rudolph and she has been asked to wear brown clothes as her costume. It reminded me of a skit I did when I was little and my mom went out of her way to dye me some clothes so I could have brown clothes to be a reindeer and then everyone else wore black clothes. I love mom for that. She is so good at going the extra mile.

My finals start next week. I've been trying to study for them, but every time I try to read the chapters I'm suppose to know I fall asleep. I'm pretty frustrated with myself. I can't wait to be finished with my classes for a few weeks. I need the break. I haven't signed up for next semester yet. I hope to do that today.

This is Makayla's tap outfit. This is Lexi singing in the quartet.

This is Makayla dancing her ballet. This is her in her ballet outfit.
One of the moms bought flowers for all the dancers because her daughter was one of them. I thought it was really nice of her. And Makayla loved getting the flower. I would've had more pictures of her actually dancing and Lexi singing in the choir, but I forgot that I had a nighttime setting on the camera until the very end of Makayla's ballet. The pictures I tried to take before that were too black to see anything. I was so mad at myself for not remembering sooner. But Charlie was able to video record all their performance. I just can't post those here.